Spatial Humanities
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• Mickey , K . ( Presenter ). Georgia GIS Mitigation Planning Strategies : From Vision to Reality . Esri International Users Conference . San Diego , CA . June 28 , 2016 .
• Mickey , K . ( Presenter ). Incentivizing Resilience : Moving from Ideas to Impact . National Institute of Building Sciences Building Innovation Conference . January 12 , 2017 .
• McCoy , C ., Mickey , K . ( Presenter ). Incentivizing Resilience : Moving from Risk Analysis to Impact . National Hazus-MH Users Conference . Charleston , South Carolina , November 8 , 2016 .
• Mickey , K ( Presenter ). Incentivizing Resilience : The Role of the GIS Community in Moving from Risk Analysis to Impact . National States Geographic Information Council Annual Conference . Indianapolis , Indiana . October 29 , 2016 .
• Mickey , K ( Presenter ). Briefing to staff of the U . S . House of Representatives , Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure . Using Incentives to Reduce the Impact of Disasters : Pre-Disaster Mitigation Strategies . Washington D . C ., September 22 , 2016 .
• Mickey , K , ( Speaker ). Current Trends in the Use of GIS for the Analysis and Communication of Natural Hazard Risk , Indiana State GIS Conference , May 10 , 2017 .
• Mickey , K , ( Speaker ). Dollars and ( Common ) Sense : The Path to Mitigating Natural Hazard Risk , Indiana State GIS Conference , May 10 , 2017 .
• Mickey chairs the Indiana Geographic Information Council Education Committee , which is tasked with facilitating education opportunities for the Indiana GIS community and stakeholders that benefit from GIS technologies and resources .
• Mickey serves as Chair of the National Institute of Building Sciences ( NIBS ) Multihazard Mitigation Council ( MMC ). The MMC focuses on reducing the consequences and costs associated with natural and man-made hazards to buildings and infrastructure . In September 2016 , the MMC and the NIBS Council on Finance , Insurance , and Real Estate jointly published an addendum to its 2015 paper , “ Developing Pre-Disaster Resilience Based on Public and Private Incentivization ,” which garnered interest from the federal legislative and executive branches . On August 3 , 2016 , Mickey participated in the White House Forum on Smart Finance for Disaster Resilience that was influenced by this work . In November 2016 , the MMC began a major update of its landmark 2005 “ Mitigation Saves ” study . That oftenquoted study identified an average of $ 4 saved for every $ 1 spent in FEMA mitigation grants attributed to wind , flood and earthquake hazards . The new study will occur over a one-year period during which it will examine the effectiveness of a wider range of federal grants as well as specific mitigation techniques . Mickey and Tarek Rashed are co-lead investigators on the riverine flood portion of this study which has attracted interest from a wide range of local , state and federal stakeholders .
• Mickey concludes a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association ( URISA ) in October 2017 . He then assumes the chairmanship of the URISA Professional Education Materials Committee , which has oversight responsibility of URISA professional publications .
Spatial Humanities
Key Accomplishments
• Our work in developing deep mapping as an important method and toolkit for the humanities and social sciences plays a major role in the IU Grand Challenge , “ Prepared for Environmental Change ” ( funded 2017 ).
• The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities , for which we are lead partner , published two titles in its Series on Spatial Humanities ( Indiana University Press ).
Associations / Presentations
• We led experts ’ workshops at New University of Lisbon and Queens University of Belfast in preparation for an EU Horizon 2020 ( H2020 ) grant that received strong reviews but fell just
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